Huddleston v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Moorman

Affirming.

Paul Huddleston was convicted in the Cumberland circuit court upon a charge of transporting intoxicating liquor and adjudged to pay a fine of $300.00 and serve sixty days in the county jail. He has appealed, insisting that the court erred in admitting incompetent testimony, and that the evidence adduced was not sufficient to warrant a judgment of conviction.

The testimony complained of was given by a police officer. The substance of it is that he saw appellant take a pair of saddle pockets from a mule and set them on the ground; that appellant then…